The group from the highway finds the farmhouse and they enjoy the first regular meal in forever and feel almost normal.
Sophie’s mom is sad they haven’t found her daughter yet.
Daryl shoots a zombie who tries to eat the horse.
Shane and the other guy return with supplies and they prepare to start the operation on Carl…
The end, stay tuned for Episode 4!
They had better let some time pass in this story, because at the rate of 1 episode = 1 day, they can cover barely more than 2 weeks in the life of a zombie apocalypse survivor, and how much progress can they really make in that amount of time? Carl would spend the rest of the season on bed rest at the farm, or in the RV if they had to leave suddenly.
The Walking Dead has been picked up for a third season. I’m a little annoyed, because I was hoping it would be picked up for the second half of a full 22 episode season but it looks like it will be 13 episodes and then wait until next fall. Still it’s better than the 6 episode test run we got last year.
After looking at IMDB I see that if I had been watching Mad Men or Breaking Bad I would know that AMC only ever does 13. Hopefully the show will stop dragging its feet and make better use of its limited time.
Thirteen episodes a season is about right for a cable program. Very few shows really warrant 20+ episodes a year; even the best shows end up putting out alot of filler.
Hmmm, I guess I was the only one who was dissatisfied with the pace of this episode. I mean, another 60 minutes and all they did was keep looking for Sophie and hang out with Colonel Sanders for a bit.
It’s probably a bad sign for me that I actively want Rick, Lori, and Carl to become zombie Hamburger Helper, the sooner the better. I may have to stop watching.
Yeah I’m with you. Not enough zombie exterminating, too much soul searching angst from Rick. “I have to go tell my (cheatin’ bitchy) wife that our son has been shot vs. stay to give him blood transfusions”. It’s not even a close call Rick - go find some zombies to kill.
After the episode aired they had the writer or director or someone on and he said it was going to be pretty bloody next week.
I’ve downloaded the episode and I’m not sure the yard looks mowed. The grass is obviously short and very thin near the house, but in one shot where the camera is facing the house you can tell it’s high and weedy. Although it looks mowed in some shots, I think it’s consistent with not having much rain and not being mowed in a while. I imagine they told the owners not to mow it for a month before filming but they had no rain before the shooting day so it never grew much and they got stuck with a yard that looked maintained on film.
As far as horses, they would probably be kept in the barn at night and parts of the day. I suspect a couple zombies are no match for a horse. It would trot away or kick the hell out of one that got too close. Assuming the horse is skittish of them, it would be nearly impossible for a zombie to get close enough for a bite.
Hmm, I guess that’s technically true. I can’t remember from the first season though - how many days passed before she gave up on him? It can’t have been that long because he couldn’t stay alive in the hospital for more than, say a week, without food/water after the zombie apocalypse, could he? So when the apocalypse happened she just up and left with Shane?
Shane told her Rick was dead, IIRC - which, while not technically true (and types of dead is a problem in zombie-land), was not an unrealistic assumption.
It’s not clear how long Rick was in the hospital before he came out of his coma to find The End Of The World As He’d Known It. That’s a plot hole that a lot of people can’t get past, especially since
Morgan, in the first episode, makes a statement about the gas lines having already been down for more than a month.
In the CDC episode,
Dr. Jenner refers to it being something like 163 days since the disease went global, so it’s clearly not just been a weekend.
I don’t necessarily think that Lori’s involvement with Shane is completely out of the question in the circumstances. She knew Shane for a while as Rick’s partner, she had every reason to believe that her husband was dead (and I believe that Shane himself truly believed that Rick was either going to die or was dead), the world has turned into a nightmare - I can see her simply wanting to be with someone for the comfort and the support, even if it’s not been more than a few weeks since they became refugees.
I don’t know what to spoiler and what not to, so I apologize if I didn’t spoiler something that should have been.
yeah, its Shane that is the problem here - he may have been honest at the first, but his actions since Rick have returned are at issue. Lori’s actions before/since have been overall reasonable.
I agree with you to a certain extent, but at the same time, put yourself in his shoes. He probably felt like he abandoned his partner, even while recognizing that he couldn’t take Rick out of the hospital successfully. He (and Rick) would have been shot by the military, just like it was shown in the flashback that other patients and hospital personnel were gunned down. So he’s got that guilt, plus the natural survivor guilt that a lot of people have when they survive something that others didn’t. And he feels that he’s the reason Rick’s in the hospital in the first place.
Then, he got Lori and Carl to leave for legitimate reasons, to take them to safety. He knew Lori from before, MAYBE he had feelings for her, maybe not, but he probably wanted to save them to try to atone for feeling that he’d not only abandoned Rick at the hospital, but had been responsible for Rick getting shot in the first place.
THEN, he and Lori start up a relationship, again probably just to have some comfort in a situation that nobody could handle without some emotional trauma.
THEN, Rick shows back up, and Lori still loves Rick (remember that Shane was aware that Rick and Lori were having problems). And now Shane’s got guilt because he loves Lori and Carl, he genuinely loves Rick and has all that guilt, and he realizes that he DID abandon Rick hastily, and Lori now sees him as scum.
I honestly do not know if Shane could act any differently than he is, given all that. Even the rape-y behavior at the CDC when he was drunk could be seen as a part of that emotional turmoil (although I do not forgive him for that, because that is no excuse).
I’m probably overthinking what is in reality a ridiculously contrived story anyway (zombies, really?), but it’s what I do.
perfectly reasonable explanations - his actions up until Rick’s return I have no issue with - his pointing a gun at Rick with the intent in his eyes to kill his competition, not so much.
Of course, they are all shell shocked, him with more baggage (him and his then wife were definiteily on the outs, he was jealous of Rick/Lori’s relationship, he definitiely had the hots for her, etc) - I honestly don;t think he blames himself for Rick getting shot - but he definitely had no issues taking advantage of the situation.